We aren't perfect and neither is the death penalty

10:34 AM,
Jun. 2, 2014

Written by

Jason Stanford

The death penalty isn't perfect, but neither are we. The botched execution last month in Oklahoma has raised legitimate questions about the secret sauce Texas uses on death row, and a lot of Texans still haven't gotten over the state - that is, us - executing Cameron Todd Willingham based on unscientific and discredited folk tales about arson. The Oklahoma incident in particular has caused many to re-examine the death penalty's use in Texas, but the problem isn't the process but the people who carry it out.

There is no better way to show how people are the downfall of the death penalty than ...